Deborah Hodges Editor

Mark Maltby is a widely published zooarchaeologist. He is a Professor of Archaeology at Bournemouth University, where he has been a colleague of Mark Brisbane since 1990. They share common interests in the study of the development of European medieval towns. They co-authored the monograph Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region (2020).

Deborah Hodges first met Mark Brisbane when they were undergraduates in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She has worked on archaeological projects in the UK and Italy, notably the early Medieval monastic complex at San Vincenxo al Volturno in Molise, Italy. Her museum career spanned a curatorial post in the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, Italy and later at Bath Preservation Trust Museums.